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Lori Chavez-DeRemer out as Labor secretary

2026-04-20T21:18:39.414Z / CNN

By Alejandra Jaramillo, Alicia Wallace

Updated 6 min ago
Updated Apr 20, 2026, 8:07 PM ET
PUBLISHED Apr 20, 2026, 5:18 PM ET

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer testifies before a House Appropriations subcommittee on on May 15, 2025.

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Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is stepping down from the Trump administration to take a job in the private sector amid an internal investigation into possible misconduct.

“Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer will be leaving the Administration to take a position in the private sector,” White House communications director Steven Cheung announced in a statement. “She has done a phenomenal job in her role by protecting American workers, enacting fair labor practices, and helping Americans gain additional skills to improve their lives.”

Keith Sonderling will serve as acting secretary of the Department of Labor, Cheung added.

CNN has asked the White House for more details, including when Chavez-DeRemer’s departure will take effect.

In a statement on X, Chavez-DeRemer wrote that it had “been an honor and a privilege to serve in this historic Administration and work for the greatest President of my lifetime.”

“I am proud that we made significant progress in advancing President Trump’s mission to bridge the gap between business and labor and always put the American worker first,” she wrote.

Sonderling wrote on X after the announcement, “Thank you to President Trump for the opportunity to serve as Acting Secretary of Labor. We will keep up the fight to put American workers first.”

Chavez-DeRemer’s brief tenure has been one marked by turmoil as she’s come under internal investigation following complaints within the department about her conduct. The New York Times previously reported that her husband had been banned from the department’s headquarters amid sexual assault allegations. A criminal investigation into that matter has been closed.

In March, two of her top aides were forced out amid an investigation into misconduct at the agency.

For months, the Labor Department’s Inspector General’s Office has been investigating a complaint that Chavez-DeRemer was having a sexual relationship with a member of her security team, as well as other allegations of inappropriate behavior, such as sending staff to pick up liquor and attempting to use business trips as excuses for personal travel, according to a Department of Labor source with knowledge of the situation.

For example, Chavez-DeRemer had expressed a desire to go to events such as a UFC fight in Chicago, a Morgan Wallen concert and to see friends and family in various states, and asked staff to design work trips that would provide her openings to attend those events, the source said.

As part of the investigation, text messages between Chavez-DeRemer, her close family members and staff members at the department that were personal in nature were turned over to the inspector general, according to the source. The messages included exchanges between Chavez-DeRemer’s husband and at least one young staff member, in which he asked to be kept abreast of her whereabouts.

Chavez-DeRemer’s lawyer, Nick Oberheiden, said in a statement to CNN before her new job was announced, “Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has made a name for herself as a zealous advocate for American workers. Mission-focused and committed to President Trump with utmost loyalty, Secretary Chavez-DeRemer will not comment on biased and absurd allegations against her.”

Chavez-DeRemer was sworn in as secretary of labor in March 2025, a time when the Trump administration, via the Department of Government Efficiency, sought to slash federal funding, cut programs and drastically reduce the federal workforce by cutting hundreds of thousands of jobs.

As of February, the Labor Department’s workforce was nearly 25% smaller than it was in September 2024, US Office of Personnel Management data shows.

Reductions in staffing at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in particular, stoked concern from policymakers, economists, academics, researchers and others, who sounded the alarm that existing funding and staffing were not adequate to make the “gold-standard” data more modernized and robust. And the agency faced acute upheaval when Trump fired Commissioner Erika McEntarfer following a jobs report that contained large revisions.

In the days following McEntarfer’s firing, Chavez-DeRemer told Fox Business that it was her job to support the president in the matter.

During her tenure, Chavez-DeRemer’s Labor Department announced sweeping deregulatory efforts aimed at rewriting or repealing more than 60 workplace regulations it deemed obsolete. Those included proposals to eliminate a minimum wage requirement for home health care workers, remove a standard requiring lighting in active construction areas and reduce health and safety regulations in the mining industry.

Chavez-DeRemer is the third Cabinet secretary to leave Trump’s government in recent weeks, after he fired Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi.

This story has been updated with additional details.

CNN’s Rene Marsh and Kaanita Iyer contributed to this report.

Leaked memos reveal how Supreme Court steamrolled Obama climate plan in 2016 showdown

2026-04-20T18:15:31-04:00 / Fox News

The 5-4 decision in 2016 is now seen as an early example of the emergency ‘shadow docket’ shaping national policy

By Ashley Oliver Fox News

Published April 20, 2026 6:15pm EDT

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The Supreme Court’s emergency order blocking former President Barack Obama’s signature clean energy initiative in 2016 came after a series of leaked internal memos among the justices that revealed a fight along ideological lines about whether to intervene.

The rare glimpse at the high court’s internal memos, obtained by the New York Times, showed Chief Justice John Roberts, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, urging the Supreme Court to block Obama’s effort, while liberal justices pushed back.

Roberts and the court’s conservatives were concerned not just with Obama’s policy itself, but with the possibility that the Clean Power Plan could reshape the power sector before the justices could fully review whether it was lawful, the newly revealed memos show.

“Absent a stay, the Clean Power Plan will cause (and is causing) substantial and irreversible reordering of the domestic power sector before this court has an opportunity to review its legality,” Roberts wrote in one of the memos published by the New York Times on Friday.

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Fox News Digital reached out to the Supreme Court’s communications team Monday for comment on the leaks.

The push from Roberts came as the justices were considering what was viewed at the time as an unusual request on the emergency docket, sometimes called a “shadow docket,” from red states and outside groups to halt the Obama-era regulation, which aimed to cut carbon emissions over the next 25 years, before lower courts had fully weighed in, a step that the liberal justices warned would break from longstanding practice.

The emergency docket allows litigants to bypass typical court proceedings and seek immediate relief from the Supreme Court if lower courts block them through restraining orders or preliminary injunctions.

The Clean Power Plan would have involved the Obama Environmental Protection Agency regulating coal, oil and gas plants under the Clean Air Act. Roberts wrote that without the Supreme Court stepping in, “both the states and private industry will suffer irreparable harm from a rule that is — in my view — highly unlikely to survive.”

In another memo, Justice Elena Kagan, an Obama appointee, disagreed, saying “the unique nature of the relief sought in these applications gives me real pause.”

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Former President Barack Obama during a campaign event on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025.(Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Justice Samuel Alito, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, circulated a memo the same day as Kagan in which he agreed with Roberts.

“A failure to stay this rule threatens to render our ability to provide meaningful judicial review — and by extension, our institutional legitimacy — a nullity,” Alito wrote.

Within a matter of days, the justices temporarily blocked Obama’s Clean Power Plan 5-4 along ideological lines, effectively dealing it a death blow because Democrats would lose the White House later that year. The New York Times noted that the Obama White House dismissed the ruling at the time as a small hurdle but that “behind closed doors, officials were astonished that the court had intervened so quickly.”

The back-and-forth in the memos during the short period of time, from the end of January 2016 to Feb. 9, when the brief decision was issued, showed how fast the justices moved to weigh in on a major presidential action.

Jonathan Turley, law professor at George Washington University, wrote in an op-ed that the anonymous leak of the memos to the New York Times, the second leak of confidential material after the Dobbs opinion leak in 2022, was “clearly designed to wound some of its members.”

“For an institution that prides itself on its confidentiality and insularity, the court is looking increasingly porous and partisan in these leaks,” Turley wrote.

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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks to the 2025 Supreme Court Fellows Program, on February 13, 2025, at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.(JACQUELYN MARTIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

The New York Times’ report highlighted that legal experts have long viewed the Clean Power Plan decision as one of the first examples of the Supreme Court using the emergency docket in a way that limits executive power over national policy.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, has been among the most vocal dissenters in emergency cases during President Donald Trump’s second term as the president frequently benefits from the fast-paced docket. Jackson is sometimes joined by her two liberal colleagues, Kagan and Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in her dissents, and emergency cases have often split 6-3 in favor of Trump.

Last week, Jackson aired her grievances in a different forum, blasting emergency docket decisions during a Yale Law School speech as rushed, “scratch-paper musings” that undermine the high court’s purpose.

“Given the real world facts that a stay request asks the court to consider, the court’s stay decisions can, at times, come across utterly irrational,” Jackson said. “We cannot expect the public to have faith in our judicial system if, without clear explanation, we consistently greenlight harmful acts.”

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Legal experts have attributed the heightened activity on the emergency docket to a rise in presidents attempting to shape national policy through through executive orders.

“[An increase in emergency motions] coincides with the rise of executive orders and other forms of unilateral executive action really as the primary form of lawmaking in our country with the disappearance of Congress, and that has posed enormous challenges for the court,” attorney Kannon Shanmugam said during a Federalist Society panel last fall.

Fox News Digital reached out to Obama’s office for comment.

Ashley Oliver is a reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business, covering the Justice Department and legal affairs. Email story tips to ashley.oliver@fox.com.

High-level US delegation visits Cuba as Trump ups pressure

2026-04-20 4:31 PM ET / CNN

By Jennifer Hansler

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PUBLISHED Apr 20, 2026, 4:31 PM ET

The National Capitol of Cuba rises amid the Havana skyline, on March 5.

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A senior US delegation met with Cuban government officials in Cuba as the Trump administration ramps up its efforts to pressure Havana into a deal as it continues to exert its economic chokehold on the island.

It was the one of the highest-level visits of US officials in roughly a decade and comes as President Donald Trump continues to raise the specter of potential military action. It also comes as Cuba’s economic crisis continues to deepen amid sharp restrictions, including on fuel, from the US administration. Cuba’s president, meanwhile, has made increasingly defiant calls to resist US military aggression in recent days.

The senior State Department delegation, which visited the island in recent weeks, stressed that time was running out for Havana “to make key US backed reforms before circumstances irreversibly worsen,” a US State Department official told CNN.

It was the first time a US government aircraft touched down in Cuba – other than at the US base in Guantanamo Bay – since 2016, when former President Barack Obama visited amid an effort to expand relations with Havana.

According to the State Department official, the US delegation stressed “Cuba’s need to make significant economic and governance reforms to enhance competitiveness, attract foreign investment, and allow private sector-led growth.”

They discussed a proposal to bring Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet to Cuba, as well as proposals to compensate US people and corporations “for confiscated assets and properties” – something that would likely be welcomed by the Cuban diaspora in the United States.

The delegation put forward demands that the Cuban government release political prisoners and increase “political freedoms” for the population, the State Department official said. They also expressed concerns “about foreign intelligence, military, and terror groups operating with Cuban governmental permission less than 100 miles from the American homeland,” the official said.

The official declined to provide details on the members of the delegation. They noted that one senior State Department official met separately with Raul Castro’s grandson during the visit.

On Monday, a top Cuban official confirmed that a meeting between Cuban and US delegations “was recently held” on the island.

Speaking to state media, Alejandro García del Toro described the meeting as “respectful and professional,” and said that “eliminating the energy blockade against the country was a top priority for our delegation.”

In later March, the Trump administration allowed a Russian-flagged oil tanker into Cuban waters, breaking the fuel blockade, saying: “They have to survive.” The White House afterward said this was “not a policy change.” Still, the overall blockade has significantly hamstrung the island.

Meanwhile, Trump has repeatedly suggested that the US could pursue military action against Havana, following what he has described as a significant military success against Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela.

“In January, our warriors flew straight into the heart of the Venezuelan capital, captured the outlaw dictator Nicolás Maduro and brought him to face American justice,” Trump said at an event Friday. “And pretty soon, this great strength will bring about a day 70 years and waiting. It’s called a new dawn for Cuba.”

Embattled Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, while commemorating the 65th anniversary of the victory by Cuban soldiers at the Bay of Pigs over CIA trained exile forces, Díaz-Canel vowed to “open fire” on any new US attempts to invade the island.

On Sunday, Díaz-Canel was shown on Cuban TV with other officials signing a declaration to never “negotiate the principles of the Cuban revolution.”

CNN’s Patrick Oppmann and Michael Rios contributed reporting.

Chavez-DeRemer steps down as US labor secretary amid misconduct probe

2026-04-20 21:18:57 UTC / Reuters

By Jasper Ward

April 20, 2026 9:18 PM UTC Updated 40 mins ago

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U.S. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer speaks at a press conference with U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and other House Republicans, more than a month into the ongoing U.S. government shutdown on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 4, 2025. REUTERS/Annabelle Gordon Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab

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Deputy Keith Sonderling named acting labor secretary, White House announces
Inspector general probe includes allegations of misconduct, misuse of resources, inappropriate messages
Chavez-DeRemer previously received bipartisan Senate support and union backing for her nomination

WASHINGTON, April 20 (Reuters) – U.S. Labor Secretary ‌Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned on Monday amid allegations of misconduct at the department, stepping down as the Labor Department’s inspector general neared the end of an investigation into claims involving her and her top aides.

Her deputy, Keith Sonderling, will serve as acting secretary, the White ​House said.

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“While my time serving in the Administration comes to a conclusion, it doesn’t mean I ​will stop fighting for American workers. I am looking forward to what the future has ⁠in store as I depart for the private sector,” Chavez-DeRemer said in a statement.

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The Labor Department’s inspector general ​is nearing the end of a months-long investigation into a whistleblower’s allegations of professional misconduct by Chavez-DeRemer, including claims ​that she had an affair with a member of her security team and used department resources for personal trips. Chavez-DeRemer was expected to be interviewed in the matter in the coming days.

Her departure makes her the third to leave U.S. President Donald Trump’s ​cabinet in recent weeks. Kristi Noem was fired as secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in March ​and Pam Bondi left as attorney general less than a month later.

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Trump had been weighing a broader cabinet reshuffling as he grows increasingly ‌frustrated ⁠with the political fallout from the war with Iran, five people familiar with internal White House discussions told Reuters earlier this month.

Chavez-DeRemer took the helm of the agency in March 2025 after serving in the U.S. House of Representatives for two years. Her nomination received bipartisan support in the U.S. Senate.

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the American ​Federation of Labor and ​Congress of Industrial Organizations ⁠were among the unions that supported Chavez-DeRemer’s nomination.

At the time, the AFL-CIO praised her “history of supporting the freedom of workers to organize, join unions and other fundamental values ​of the labor movement.”

The Teamsters did not immediately respond when reached about Chavez-DeRemer’s departure. ​The AFL-CIO said ⁠a labor secretary who “understands working people and will work to make our lives better” is needed.

Chavez-DeRemer’s tenure was fraught with allegations of misconduct at the department that resulted in the resignations of her chief of staff and deputy chief ⁠of staff.

The ​department’s inspector general has also investigated Chavez-DeRemer and her aides over ​claims that they sent personal text messages and inappropriate requests to young staff members, according to the New York Times.

Reporting by Jasper Ward ​in Washington; Additional reporting by Nandita Bose, Gram Slattery and Andrea Shalal, Editing by Caitlin Webber and Stephen Coates

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Gunman at Mexico’s Teotihuacán pyramids kills Canadian tourist, injures at least 4 people

April 20, 2026 / 7:23 PM EDT / CBS News

A Canadian tourist was shot and killed Monday while visiting the Teotihuacán pyramids in Mexico, according to local authorities.

Mexico’s security officials said a gunman opened fired at the popular tourist spot, killing a Canadian woman and injuring at least four people. The shooter later took his own life, the Security Cabinet said.

In a video posted on X, verified by CBS News, a man with a gun is seen pacing near the top of the Pyramid of the Moon. In another video, gunshots can be heard as visitors of the archeological site are seen walking at the bottom of the pyramid.

At least two other people were injured from falls, officials said.

Mexico’s Security Cabinet said a firearm, a bladed weapon and ammunition were found at the scene.

Forensic workers carry the body of a victim down a pyramid after authorities said a gunman opened fire, in Teotihuacan, Mexico, Monday, April 20, 2026. Eduardo Verdugo / AP

“What happened today in Teotihuacán deeply pains us,” Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said in a statement on Monday. “I express my most sincere solidarity with the affected individuals and their families.”

Mexican authorities are in contact with the Canadian embassy about the incident, Sheinbaum said.

The Teotihuacán pyramids are located 30 miles north of Mexico City. The pyramids are one of Mexico’s most important and visited archeological sites, with millions of tourists flocking to them each year.

Warren says her ‘kind of man’ is left-wing Senate hopeful rocked by Nazi-tattoo, Reddit controversies

Combat veteran and oyster farmer leads Gov. Janet Mills by 38 points ahead of the June 9 Democratic primary

2026-04-20T18:00:26-04:00 / Fox News

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Published April 20, 2026 6:00pm EDT

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner cites military ‘culture’ for controversial behavior, faces backlash

In a CBS News interview, Democrat Graham Platner said his time in a “hyper masculine, hyper violent” military culture shaped past controversial views. Republican veterans, including Rep. Don Bacon and Sen. Tim Sheehy, pushed back on the claim.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., long a progressive force in New England, traveled to Maine over the weekend to boost left-wing Senate candidate Graham Platner ahead of the state’s pivotal Democratic primary.

“Graham is a combat veteran. He’s an oyster farmer, he is an organizer, and he is the person who is going to beat Susan Collins,” said Warren at his campaign rally on Saturday in Portland.

At one point during the rally, Warren said Platner was her “kind of man,” recalling that she first noticed him in an interview where he argued the system was “rigged” after the 2008 financial crash as no bankers were jailed.

Warren is championing Platner as a “fighter” for Maine voters, drawing national attention to the candidate ahead of a showdown with two-term Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, who has the backing of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. A series of controversies, however, trail Platner.

MAINE SENATE CANDIDATE CITES COMBAT TRAUMA WHEN CONFRONTED ON ‘TERRIBLE’ POSTS ABOUT SEXUAL ASSAULT

U.S. senatorial candidate from Maine Graham Platner speaks at a town hall at the Leavitt Theater on October 22, 2025 in Ogunquit, Maine. Platner, a veteran of the U.S. Marines and an oyster farmer, is running for the seat held by Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME).(Sophie Park/Getty Images)

“Insiders who go along to get along are not going to hose the corruption out of Washington. We need Graham Platner to come in and get the corruption out of Washington,” said Warren from the rally.

ELIZABETH WARREN ENDORSES NAZI-TATTOOED GRAHAM PLATNER IN HIGH-STAKES MAINE SENATE PRIMARY

“There are people who realize that when the system is this broken, when there are this many billionaires who have this much control over our country, it is no longer time to make little change at the margins, it is time for big, structural change,” Warren added.

Maine’s Democratic primary is June 9, with Platner working to unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins in November’s general election.

Platner’s past controversies have been political fodder for the Mills campaign, including directing voters to his decade-old Reddit posts in which he appeared to place blame on sexual assault victims and defended Hamas military moves, among other messages from the 2013 and 2014 era. Platner also came under fire for having a chest tattoo recognized as a Nazi symbol, which he has since apologized for and covered.

“For those of you who have read these things and been offended, have read these things and seen someone that you don’t recognize, I am deeply sorry,” Platner said in an apology video in 2025.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) questions former executives of failed banks during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Capitol Hill May 16, 2023, in Washington.(Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Warren, who is one of President Donald Trump’s most relentless critics, notably condemned Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth last year for his Christian tattoos, which include the Jerusalem Cross and the Latin phrase “Deus Vult,” which translates to “God wills it.”

“We cannot have a Defense Secretary whose fellow service members feel concerned enough about to report as a potential insider threat,” Warren wrote in a lengthy letter to Hegseth in 2025 over her concerns with his tattoos.

The Massachusetts Democrat has downplayed Platner’s past controversies since her endorsement of the Senate candidate.

“Look, he has apologized for that, and he’s out there talking to the people of Maine every single day,” Warren told HuffPost when asked about Platner’s controversies.

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Graham Platner, a U.S. Marine and Army veteran and oyster farmer, in August launched a Democratic run for the U.S. Senate in Maine.(Graham Platner)

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The race has amplified divisions within the Democrat Party, with left-wing lawmakers such as Warren and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders back Platner, while Schumer and Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer have backed Mills for the Senate.

Graham Platner, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, points to a covered tattoo that had previously been an image recognized as a Nazi symbol, during an interview on Wednesday in Portland, Me.(WGME via AP)

Platner, angling himself a Washington outsider, spoke Saturday about wealth being shifted to the “ruling class” through a system created by establishment politicians.

“The money went somewhere, and it wasn’t down here. It was stolen from us, stolen from us in a system that was built by establishment politicians like Susan Collins,” said Platner, as Democrats increasingly lean into slamming the Trump administration and GOP for its economic policies in the lead up to the midterms.

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Fox News Digital reached out to the offices of Warren and Planter for comment on Monday.

Fox News Digital’s Paul Steinhauser and Bonny Chu contributed to this report.

Ashley J. DiMella reports on politics for Fox News Digital.

俄预计未来数年对华天然气售价将比对欧低约三分之一

2026年4月21日 07:16 / 联合早报

俄预计未来数年对华天然气售价将比对欧低约三分之一

今年俄罗斯对中国的天然气价格预计平均为每千立方米258.80美元。图为工人正在检查“西伯利亚力量”天然气管道。 （路透社）

俄罗斯政府预计，未来数年向中国出售天然气的价格将比欧洲支付的价格低约三分之一，凸显出其转向亚洲的举措尚未完全弥补失去大部分西方市场所带来的损失。

据彭博社报道，两位了解政府预测的人士称，今年俄罗斯对中国的天然气价格预计平均为每千立方米258.80美元（约329新元），比仍在采购的少数欧洲买家支付的价格低逾38%。

这些人士表示，价差在未来三年将逐步缩小，但到2029年幅度仍将略高于27%。

由于相关计划尚未公开，知情人士要求匿名。俄罗斯政府新闻部门未立即回应置评请求。

报道称，价格差距表明，尽管中国现在是莫斯科最大的天然气客户，但与以前俄罗斯和欧洲的贸易关系相比，中国带来的利润要少得多。

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2022年初俄罗斯入侵乌克兰后，大部分商业联系被切断，只有匈牙利、斯洛伐克、塞尔维亚和土耳其等少数几个欧洲国家仍在通过管道接收俄罗斯的天然气供应。俄罗斯政府和国有企业俄罗斯天然气工业股份公司传统上将土耳其划入欧洲地区。

Tim Cook to step down as Apple CEO, with John Ternus tapped as successor

2026-04-20 17:18 EDT / CBS News

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Updated on: April 20, 2026 / 5:42 PM EDT / CBS News

Tim Cook will step down as Apple’s CEO later this year and be replaced by John Ternus, a senior vice president of hardware engineering, the technology company announced on Monday.

Cook will become executive chairman of Apple’s board of directors, replacing Arthur Levinson, the company said. Ternus, a 25-year Apple veteran, will assume the role of CEO on September 1, the company said.

“It has been the greatest privilege of my life to be the CEO of Apple and to have been trusted to lead such an extraordinary company,” Cook said in a statement. “I love Apple with all of my being, and I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to work with a team of such ingenious, innovative, creative and deeply caring people who have been unwavering in their dedication to enriching the lives of our customers and creating the best products and services in the world.”

Cook also praised Ternus, saying he “has the mind of an engineer, the soul of an innovator, and the heart to lead with integrity and with honor.”

“I am profoundly grateful for this opportunity to carry Apple’s mission forward,” Ternus said in a statement. “Having spent almost my entire career at Apple, I have been lucky to have worked under Steve Jobs and to have had Tim Cook as my mentor. It has been a privilege to help shape the products and experiences that have changed so much of how we interact with the world and with one another.”

Cook, 65, succeeded Apple co-founder Steve Jobs as CEO in 2011. Over the course of his nearly 15 years at the helm of Apple, Cook has focused on launching and expanding services including Apple Pay, Apple TV and Apple Music, which generate more than $100 billion a year for the firm. Cook also oversaw the launches of new products including the Apple Watch and AirPods.

Big shoes

Apple’s market value has surged roughly $3.6 trillion over the course of Cook’s tenure as CEO.

“Ternus’s name has been mentioned throughout the media over the last several months as the most likely Cook successor, so the fact he’s getting the job won’t be shocking to people (and the fact its Ternus instead of someone with more of a software background speaks to how Apple sees itself as a hardware-first organization),” Adam Crisafulli an equity analyst with Vital Knowledge, said in a note to investors.

Yet Wedbush Securities technology analyst Dan Ives said Cook is leaving at a critical time for Apple.

“These will be big shoes to fill, and the timing of Cook exiting stage left as CEO could make sense but also creates questions,” Ives said in a report. “Apple is making a major transition on its AI strategy, and longtime CEO and legendary Cook leaving now is a surprise.”

Edited by Alain Sherter

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

中国发布首份AI开源生态共识 强调坚决抵制盗取成果

2026年4月21日 07:42 / 联合早报

中国发布首份AI开源生态共识，强调坚决抵制抄袭篡改、盗取成果等破坏生态的行为。 （新华社档案照）

中国首份《关于加强协同创新促进人工智能开源生态繁荣的共识》在广东省高级人民法院发布，强调坚决抵制抄袭篡改、盗取成果等破坏生态的行为。

据中新社报道，星期一（4月20日），来自人工智能产业链的华为、腾讯、阿里、抖音、百度等24家头部科技企业、行业协会、开源基金会及社区，与专家学者、行政机关负责人共同参与“司法护航创新·开源共治共赢”倡议暨研讨活动。

据广东高院介绍，当前，人工智能正深刻重塑全球竞争格局，开源已成为驱动人工智能技术迭代与应用落地的关键模式，但随之而来的知识产权归属、许可协议履行、市场竞争秩序等法律问题日益凸显。

共识明确开源是降低创新成本、加速技术普惠的有效路径，鼓励代码、模型、数据等资源的共建共享。各方一致认可开源许可证的法律效力，承诺在许可框架内规范使用、修改、衍生开发与商业化应用，给市场吃下“定心丸”。

共识强调坚决抵制抄袭篡改、盗取成果等破坏生态的行为，特别要保障基础大模型开源方在算力、数据、研发等方面的巨额投入，扭转“谁投入谁吃亏”的不良导向。

A deal to end the Iran war seemed close. Then Trump started posting on social media

2026-04-20T22:54:02.252Z / CNN

By Alayna Treene, Kevin Liptak

36 min ago

PUBLISHED Apr 20, 2026, 6:54 PM ET

President Donald Trump listens in the Oval Office of the White House, on Saturday, April 18.

Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP

As the weekend approached, the US and Iran appeared to be closing in on a deal to end the seven-week war.

Then President Donald Trump did exactly what his staffers have repeatedly said they wouldn’t do: He seemed to try negotiating via the press, posting about ongoing talks on social media and speaking to several reporters by phone Friday morning as Pakistani intermediaries updated him on ongoing talks with Iranian officials in Tehran.

He claimed Iran had agreed to a host of provisions that sources familiar with the talks said have not yet been finalized. He also asserted that Tehran had agreed to many of the most contentious US demands — including that it had agreed to hand over the enriched uranium — and declared an imminent end to the war.

Iranian officials outwardly rejected many of those assertions and denied they were preparing for another round of talks, rapidly tanking the rising optimism for a deal. Now, it’s unclear where the peace talks go from here.

Some Trump officials privately acknowledged to CNN that the president’s public commentary has been detrimental to talks, noting the sensitivity of the negotiations and the Iranians’ deep mistrust of the US. Compounding matters: American officials suspect there is a divide between Iran’s negotiating team, led by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, leading to questions about who can ultimately sign off on a deal.

“The Iranians didn’t appreciate POTUS negotiating through social media and making it appear as if they had signed off on issues they hadn’t yet agreed to, and ones that aren’t popular with their people back home,” one person familiar with the talks told CNN, adding that the Iranians are particularly concerned about appearing to look weak.

Among the president’s claims: Trump told Bloomberg that Iran had agreed to an “unlimited” suspension of its nuclear program. He told CBS News Tehran “agreed to everything,” and would work with the US to remove its enriched uranium. And he told Axios a meeting would “probably take place over the weekend,” adding, “I think we will get a deal in the next day or two.”

The fragile ceasefire between Washington and Tehran was tested once again on Sunday when a US guided-missile destroyer fired on and seized an Iranian cargo ship after it tried to get past the US naval blockade in the Gulf of Oman, further angering the Iranians.

Now, as the expiration date of a two-week ceasefire looms, Trump is again facing a decision: whether to accept a deal, even an imperfect one, or to escalate a conflict he once said would be over by now.

By Monday, officials in Iran sounded less resistant to more negotiations. But the contours of any pending agreement remained unclear.

“The United States has never been closer to a good deal with Iran, unlike the horrible deal made by the Obama Administration, thanks to President Trump’s negotiating ability,” said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. “Anyone who cannot see President Trump’s tactics to play the long game are either stupid or willfully ignorant.”

Trump has set several red lines for the negotiations, including that Iran freeze its uranium enrichment and surrender its stockpile of near-bomb-grade material. Tehran, meanwhile, insists it be allowed to maintain control over the Strait of Hormuz while also demanding the US lift sanctions.

During the first round of talks, American negotiators proposed a 20-year pause on Iran enriching uranium, a source familiar with the discussions said. Iran responded with a proposal for a five-year suspension, which the US has rejected, according to a US official.

One recent proposal from the Iranian side would involve a 10-year pause on enrichment, followed by another decade where Iran would agree to only enrich to levels well below weapons grade, according to a person familiar with the discussions. Meanwhile, Trump has told reporters that he wants no enrichment indefinitely and is against even the 20-year pause.

The Trump administration is also considering unfreezing $20 billion in Iranian assets as part of ongoing negotiations with Tehran, CNN previously reported. The step would come in exchange for Iran turning over its stockpile of highly enriched uranium.

How flexible each side is on their terms will ultimately dictate whether a deal can be reached. For Trump, one imperative is not agreeing to a deal that could be likened to the Obama-era Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, an Iran nuclear deal he withdrew from in 2018 and has continuously derided as weak.

At the least, negotiators hope to produce a framework understanding between the US and Iran that would then lead to more detailed talks over the coming weeks on the finer points of a deal. That approach has its detractors, however, who warn that Iran could be drawing out the discussions as a play for time as it unearths some of its missile systems that have been buried over the course of the war.

Trump insisted Monday he wasn’t feeling pressure to reach a deal, despite the war’s rising unpopularity among the American public and the role it’s played in higher gas prices.

“I am under no pressure whatsoever, although, it will all happen, relatively quickly!” he wrote on Truth Social.

It was unclear as of Monday afternoon whether any advisers had shared concerns with the president that his penchant for posting could be damaging to the talks. By midday, he had posted multiple times on Truth Social about the war, totaling more than 900 words.

His public comments have only continued to add to the uncertainty surrounding negotiations.

At one point Sunday morning, Trump told a series of callers that Vice President JD Vance would not participate in this round of talks, citing unspecified security concerns. Simultaneously, two senior officials in his government — United Nations Ambassador Mike Waltz and Energy Secretary Chris Wright — appeared on television to say Vance would, in fact, be leading the delegation in Islamabad, as he had for the first round.

It turned out they were right and Trump was wrong. “Things changed,” a White House official told CNN when asked what had happened.

A day later, Trump offered another confusing update, this time about the whereabouts of his No. 2. He told a reporter calling from the New York Post that Vance was in the air and preparing to touch down in Pakistan within hours for the talks. Moments later, Vance’s motorcade — with the vice president inside — arrived at the West Wing.

“We expect the delegation to be on the road soon,” a White House official explained.

People familiar with the plans said Vance is now planning to depart Washington on Tuesday for the talks, which Trump claimed on Sunday would occur Monday evening.

But negotiations are now on track to commence Wednesday morning in Islamabad. In something of an understatement, the sources cautioned the situation remains “fluid.”

So, too, is the fate of the two-week ceasefire, which is set to expire soon. When, exactly, its deadline falls has also seemingly changed, based on a phone conversation Trump had with a reporter on Monday. He originally announced the ceasefire at 6:32 p.m. ET on April 7, putting the two-week mark on Tuesday evening in Washington.

But Trump told Bloomberg the truce ends “Wednesday evening Washington time,” allowing for an extra 24 hours of talks before he must choose whether make good on his threat to blow up Iranian bridges and power plants, a possible war crime. He added that it was “highly unlikely” that he would extend it further.

But he previously went back and forth on whether he would agree to extend the ceasefire. During one question-and-answer session with reporters last week, he was asked five separate times whether he would extend the ceasefire, and offered three different answers:

“If there’s no deal, fighting resumes,” he said definitively at one point. Later, he offered that he would offer an extension if necessary: “If we need to, I would do that.” In another answer, he suggested the question was moot, given the state of negotiations: “We’ll see. I don’t know that we’ll have to. Ideally, we won’t.”